The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-14
STANLEY AS A REPORTER.
A Newspaper Man Gives Some Remi-
niscences of the Explorer.
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From the Philddclphtd Press.
/ WASHINGTON, April S.--A gentleman who
1 served on the local staff Of a Western pa
per with Henry M. Stanley, before the now
1 celebrated explorer had started on his search
/ for Livingstone, tells some very interesting
/ stories of the friend of the King of the Bel
/ gaue. II met Stanley the last time he was
! in New York, - said this gentleman. land was
/ greatly surprised to see that he still retains
| that appearance Of q young man. IN fact,
/ he did not appear q day Older than he was
when he left Omaha nearly twenty years
ago When | made n close examination,
/ however, this phenomenon was accounted
| for He is, found, a liberal patron Of hair
dyes, and he is made up as much as any
actor on the stage. Henry was always
great on makeup. 1t was his great
ability in making something out of nothing
that brought him into discredit in Omaha
when the first report of his successful
search for Livingstone was sent across the
water"
''To what do you refer"
| STANLEY and | were local reporters to-
| gether in one of the frontier towns when
! the Pixies Peak excitement was at its height.
Stanley was also the correspondent of sew
cral Eastern papers. 1t was supposed that
we, ON the extreme edge of civilization, had
extensive facilities for collecting advance
news from the seat of the excitement, and
| Stanly was not the boy to let chance to make
a dollar slip, because real news was scarce.
| His correspondence to his Eastern connec-
tons was filed with the most glowing and
blood-Curdling accounts of the trials and
trilulatOns of the men whose shibboleth
was Pixies Peak or Bust Not day passed
that he did not grind out a column of hor-
roIS. One day thrilling account of an In
dian massacre would startle the good peo-
pie of Boston, New York or Philadel-
phia. The next morning he would tell of an
outbreak of the lawess element in which
there would be fifteen or twenty killed.
Then would follow a story of the wonderful
discovery of a fabulous sum of gold by
party of prospectors. All these stories would
be made more realistic by the names of the
killed. and wounded and the exact hour i'll
the day when each event occurred. In fact.
they bore every indication of profound
truth, and they We're doubtless believed by
those who read them. Each story oStensi-
bly, came from the mouth of some disguised
miner who had started on his return to his
home in the East They were in fact per-
feet works of fiction, and did great credit to
Stanleys imagination.
Then the people of Omaha do not take
much stock in the reports of his successful
trip into the interior of Africa this time."
"Oh, don't know much about the feeling
toward Stanley there now A new popula-
ton has grown up in the West since he re
| sided among us, and those who live in
Omaha now are not acquainted with him.
Has be ever been to visit the scenes of
his early triumphs since the discovery of
Livingstonep
YES, he was there soon after his first return
to America. About the first thing he said
was in the nature of abuse for the in
crcdulity with which the people of Omaha
had received the reports of his trip to L Jill.
| reminded him of the Pixies Peak stories,
and he seemed to be satisfied p"
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